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The Department of Social Protection has taken a further step to crack down on social welfare cheats in Galway. A member of the Gardai has been seconded into the Department’s Special Investigations Unit and will take specific responsibility for preventing welfare fraud in the city and county.

A city family whose eldest son died four years ago in an accident while holidaying in the United States say they are delighted that the Government plans to set up a register of Irish people who die overseas.

Over 200 students registered to vote in the space of just two hours in Athlone Institute of Technology this week, as a major campaign to get students registered to vote swept across the country.

“What kind of picture is this building of this city?” asked a district court judge after hearing of the abuse hurled at a member of the Gardai doing his duty.

Garda Robert McCallion, a 29-year-old native of Swinford who lost his battle for life at Beaumont Hospital Dublin on Tuesday, has been described as a “hero”.

A local Fianna Fail councillor is “outraged” at what she alleges is the HSE’s “relative inaction” when fraud and deception is uncovered in the health authority’s welfare system.

A 27-year-old man appeared in court yesterday charged with the murder of Claregalway man Kieran Cunningham eight weeks ago.

A 42-year-old man who held his “community up for ransom” by firing up to 48 shotgun rounds during a 21-hour seige in Gort has been sentenced to a total of five years in jail with the final year suspended.

Over 100 students from Athlone Institute of Technology descended on the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone on Monday this week to stage a protest to coincide with the Fianna Fail ‘think in’ taking place at the hotel.